During the 1980s, he contributed to various cartoons of the period such as The Smurfs, Galaxy High and G. I.

* Comedy Band The Barron Knights ' 1978 UK # 3 hit single A Taste Of Aggro, a medley of parodies, included a version of The Smurf Song featuring, in place of the Smurfs, a group of bank robbers from Catford who have escaped from Dartmoor Prison.

* 1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.

* The Smurfs ( 1981 – 1990, co-produced with SEPP International S. A., Dupuis Audiovisuel and later with Lafig S. A., NBC )

The Smurfs featured music based on classical themes, re-arranged by Curtin.

* The Sandman appears in The Smurfs episode " Darkness Monster " voiced by Frank Welker.

The greatest and most enduring success however was mainly for some series started in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960 ( including Lucky Luke, The Smurfs, and Asterix ), and the even older Tintin, while many more recent series have not made a significant commercial impact outside the French and Dutch speaking countries, despite the critical acclaim for authors like Moebius.

The last licensed release in Europe was The Smurfs: Travel the World, released by Infogrames in 1996.

Although Decca had set up the first of the British " progressive " labels, Deram Records, in 1966, with such stars as Cat Stevens and The Moody Blues, by the time the punk era set in 1977, Decca had pop success with such acts as John Miles, novelty creation Father Abraham and The Smurfs, and productions by longtime Decca associate Jonathan King.

Though the dominant Hanna-Barbera Productions launched a phenomenon with the 1981 premiere of The Smurfs on NBC, very little else which they produced in this decade caught on.

Second, when The Smurfs was cancelled by NBC in 1990, Hanna-Barbera had no other hits on the air.

Belgium has numerous well-known cartoonists, such as Hergé ( The Adventures of Tintin ), Peyo ( The Smurfs ), Franquin ( Spirou et Fantasio, Marsupilami, Gaston ), Willy Vandersteen ( Spike and Suzy ), Morris ( Lucky Luke ), Edgar P. Jacobs ( Blake and Mortimer ), Jef Nys ( Jommeke ) and Marc Sleen ( Nero ).

It is there he met some of his future colleagues: Maurice de Bevere ( Morris, creator of Lucky Luke ), Pierre Culliford ( Peyo, creator of the Smurfs ), and Eddy Paape.

* Father Time appears as a recurring character in The Smurfs voiced by Alan Oppenheimer.

In 2011, the FAO Schwarz Fifth Avenue store was featured in The Smurfs during an action-packed chase scene in which the Smurfs encounter the evil wizard Gargamel.

Pierre Culliford ( 25 June 1928 – 24 December 1992 ), known as Peyo, was a Belgian comics artist, perhaps best known for the creation of The Smurfs comic strip.

In 1959, the Smurfs got their own series, and in 1960, two more began: Steven Strong and Jacky and Célestin.

The merchandising of the Smurfs began in 1959, with the PVC figurines as the most important aspect until the late 1970s.

Then, with the success of the Smurf records by Father Abraham, the Smurfs achieved more international success, with a new boom in toys and gadgets.

In the 2011 movie The Smurfs, Peyo is written in as a researcher who studied the myths concerning the Smurfs, who are made to be real-life legendary creatures in the movie's story line.

* The 50th anniversary of The Smurfs and the 80th anniversary of the birth of its creator, was celebrated by issuing a high-value collectors ' coin: the Belgian 5 euro 50th anniversary of The Smurfs commemorative coin, minted in 2008.

* The Smurfs ( I Puffi )

When the Smurfs argued about which one should marry her, she herself announced that she would take Grouchy Smurf, who had customarily stated " I hate marriage ", thus making her point that the subject was closed.

* I Puffi ( The Smurfs )

While speaking, Smurfs tend to replace a verb with some form of the word " smurf " ( example: " I feel like smurfing some bread ," instead of, " I feel like eating some bread ").

The older Bugs Bunny and Popeye cartoons made way for first-run syndicated cartoons such as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Rambo: The Force of Freedom, ThunderCats, Dennis the Menace, My Little Pony, The Transformers, G. I.

Joe, Transformers, ThunderCats and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

For the remainder of the 1980s the company published only a small handful of titles that appealed to superhero fans, but had considerable success on the UK newsstands with licensed titles such as The Real Ghostbusters, ThunderCats, Transformers and many others.

Cartoon Action Hour is a role-playing game ( RPG ) designed to emulate classic action-adventure cartoons, such as ThunderCats, He-Man, Transformers, G. I.

* The animated series ThunderCats had a main character who was an anthropomorphic cheetah named Cheetara.

* Thundera — Home planet of the ThunderCats.

ThunderCats is an American / Japanese animated television series that was produced by Rankin / Bass Productions ( the same that created the SilverHawks, TigerSharks, and The Comic Strip ) debuting in 1984, based on the characters created by Tobin " Ted " Wolf.

Items of clothing featuring the ThunderCats logo and DVD boxsets of the original series have enjoyed a resurgence in recent years as nostalgia for the former children's favorite has grown.

It was announced on June 5, 2007, that Aurelio Jaro is making a CGI-animated feature film of ThunderCats, based on a script written by Paul Sopocy.

ThunderCats follows the adventures of the eponymous team of heroes, cat-like humanoid aliens from a planet called Thundera.

The series plot begins with the dying planet Thundera meeting its end, forcing the ThunderCats ( a sort of Thunderean nobility ) to flee their homeworld.

The sword holds the Eye of Thundera, the source of the ThunderCats ' power, which is embedded in the hilt.

The eldest of the ThunderCats, Jaga, volunteers to pilot the ship while the others sleep in capsules ; however, he dies of old age in the process, but not before ensuring they will reach their destination safely.

The flagship contains the young Lord of the ThunderCats, Lion-O, as well as the ThunderCats Cheetara, Panthro, Tygra, WilyKit and WilyKat, and Snarf.

When the ThunderCats awake from their suspended animation on Third Earth, Lion-O discovers that his suspension capsule has slowed, rather than stopped, his aging, and he is now a child in the body of an adult.

Together, the ThunderCats and the friendly natives of Third Earth construct the " Cat's Lair ," their new home and headquarters, but before long, the Mutants have tracked them down to Third Earth.

The intrusion of these two alien races upon the world does not go unnoticed, however-a demonic, mummified sorcerer calling himself Mumm-Ra recruits the Mutants to aid him in his campaign to acquire the Eye of Thundera and destroy the ThunderCats so that his evil may continue to hold sway over Third Earth.

According to the first chapter of Wildstorm ’ s comic ThunderCats Origins: Heroes and Villains, the Third Earth is actually our Earth in the future ; the present day is " First Earth.

This status holds strong for the first season of the show, and served as the basis for a vast array of stories that freely mixed elements of science fiction and fantasy into a traditional good-versus-evil tale that steadily introduced more and more recurring allies and villains into the world of the ThunderCats.

Tying the second half of season one together was the overarching five-part adventure written by series head writer Leonard Starr, " Lion-O's Anointment ," in which an unarmed Lion-O faced off against first the other ThunderCats, and then Mumm-Ra, so he could truly earn his title as Lord of the ThunderCats.

On all four days except the last, the Mutants tried to interfere with Lion-O's trials so that they could force the ThunderCats to remain leaderless.

The other ThunderCats were then forced to involve themselves in the conflict to foil the Mutants's interferences — all while trying to avoid assisting Lion-O in his anointment trials.